The Latest Breaking News from Michelle Lensink

Anti-abortion advocate Joanna Howe banned from South Australia’s upper house for alleged ‘threatening’ tactics towards politicians

Upper house president Terry Stephens says of ‘highest concern’ is suggestion Howe attempted to ‘improperly influence the free performance’ of MLCs’ duties

The Guardian - AU · Oct 31, 2024

Anti-abortion activist Joanna Howe says she pressured South Australian MP to back out of voting deal

Liberal MLC Jing Lee told parliament she felt pressured after ‘unexpected encounter with a very persistent visitor’ but didn’t name Howe

The Guardian - AU · Oct 30, 2024

Calls mount for SA domestic violence royal commission

The SA opposition and crossbenchers are urging the Labor government to call a royal commission into domestic violence, arguing the state is lagging the country.

AAP · Nov 29, 2023

South Australia's public housing shortage worsens, as number of people on waiting list reaches 17,000

The state government says work is underway on the first stages of its plan to build 400 extra public houses, while advocates say it's a good start but so much more housing is urgently needed.

ABC News · Jul 31, 2022

Call to rent out SA road project houses

SA's opposition says homes acquired in Adelaide for the delayed north-south road project should be put up for rent, something the government says is happening.

AAP · Jul 12, 2022

Pleas for South Australian euthanasia laws to be brought forward as campaigner dies of oesophageal cancer

Beth Mylius's dying wish was to see voluntary euthanasia laws in South Australia come into effect, so as not to suffer a painful death. Her wish never came true.

ABC News · Jul 10, 2022

South Australians forced to camp in tents amid housing affordability crisis and cost of living pressures

Meagan, a single mum on a disability payment, lives in a tent at a caravan park after being squeezed out of the private rental market. She can only stay at the caravan park for 55 days at a time, but the average wait for urgent public housing in SA is…

ABC News · Jun 10, 2022

Minister apologises to family of disability care client Mr D, downplays malnutrition claims

South Australia's Human Services Minister Michelle Lensink says she has apologised to the family of the disability care client known as Mr D, who was found in soiled clothes and with an infected wound at a state-run care facility, but rejects comparisons with the case of manslaughter victim Ann Marie…

ABC News · Feb 16, 2022

Community houses 'boarded up' in regional SA, leaving homeless to sleep in tents

Homeless people are forced to sleep in tents and public toilets in Mount Gambier, despite almost 50 social housing properties sitting empty across the region, a Labor MP says.

ABC News · Nov 2, 2021